The Virgin Suicides

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'Beautiful, funny and touching ... Eugenides is a skilful craftsman and a hypnotic storyteller' Jay Mclnerney The haunting, humorous and tender story of the brief lives of the five entrancing Lisbon sisters, The Virgin Suicides, now a major film, is Jeffrey Eugenides' classic debut növel. The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normál they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence: the brassiere draped over a crucifix belonging to the promiscuous Lux; the sisters' breathtaking appearance on the night of the dance; and the sultry, sleepy Street across which they watched a family disintegrate and fragile lives disappear. 'A bewitching növel of love, pain and the end of childhood' Vogue 'Wry and voluptuous with glittering black jokes carried along like seacoal by the smooth melancholy... Tovább

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'Beautiful, funny and touching ... Eugenides is a skilful craftsman and a hypnotic storyteller' Jay Mclnerney The haunting, humorous and tender story of the brief lives of the five entrancing Lisbon sisters, The Virgin Suicides, now a major film, is Jeffrey Eugenides' classic debut növel. The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normál they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence: the brassiere draped over a crucifix belonging to the promiscuous Lux; the sisters' breathtaking appearance on the night of the dance; and the sultry, sleepy Street across which they watched a family disintegrate and fragile lives disappear. 'A bewitching növel of love, pain and the end of childhood' Vogue 'Wry and voluptuous with glittering black jokes carried along like seacoal by the smooth melancholy swell ... Eugenides uses the rhythms of prose with exactitude, to shock, to amuse or to make music ... superb' Sunday Times 'Jeffrey Eugenides is not promising: he is the real, achieved thing ... the book is light as air, and as dense; it is alsó quietly, slyly funny, despite its melancholy subject' Observer 'Entire and unstoppable ... a sparkling work' The Times Vissza